Shining by Matt Calico
Another freejazz variant that I’ve been watching since a long time ago is Shining, once again hailing from Scandinavia. I guess the libertarian social atmosphere must help creativity flourish in the north of Europe. Formed by Norwegian sax player and former Jaga Jazzist guy Jørgen Munkeby in 1999, Shining is a 4 [...]

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California’s Upsilon Acrux may not be as intense as grindcore bands in tempo and noise, but it’s complex oddtimed riffage and polyrhythmic drumming (and silly album names?) is quite correctly labeled as “brutal prog“.

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Rock music is converging more and more into jazz & electronic music, with unconventional compositions & song structures and thank God MTV has not delved into this territory yet. Manufactur is a Swiss 4 piece that wrestles formulaic music with their own homebrew jazzy math-rock. Trumpeter Werner Hasler, Electronician Oli Kuster, Bassist Urban Lienert and [...]

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We’re living in this silly little modern world, where indie is the new pop, folk is the new black and prog is the new alternative. The fact for instance, that an old song by Mogollar (Les Moguls) is the official Playstation 3 ad shows how people are returning to roots more and more each day. [...]

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Cécile Schott the Parisian native instrumentalist whom I always thought “Colleen” was her real name, is back with a new album on her home Leaf. Yesteryear’s “Colleen et les boîtes à musique” could be labeled a concept album that satisfied her javanese love with a musical box, which was still good but not as engaging [...]

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Colorado’s IZ, formed by guitarist Michael Serviolo is a power trio, with bassist Tom Sublet and drummer David Kerman. Their 2006 album E-M remained below the radar somehow but I think it’s worth a few listens, if you’re into experimental heavy stuff. Progressive riffs, timechanges, abrupt stops and noise is abound on E-M released by [...]

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Thanks to digital technology and the constant remasters, music is becoming increasingly timeless, in a few years probably a huge amount of more music would be remastered and digitized. Although I’m sure it’s impossible to feel most of the energy without actually being involved in that particular scene and culture in the right time, but [...]

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I don’t want to get politic over music, but I do not like war, and I really hate this nationalistic tendency that’s picking up speed again over the world. No kind of racism, nationalism and war is good and excuseable, the only solution should be immediate communication and tolerance against every race, idea, gender, etc. [...]

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